The abridged history of rainfall
By: Jay Hopler
Series: McSweeney's poetry series -- 12; McSweeney's poetry series -- 12.
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781944211264
Subjects: Grief; Poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid subtropics, the mountains of the American West, the streets of Rome, and the Umbrian countryside - Provided by the publisher.
Notes: National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, 2016
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Winter Night Full of Stars; title: Where Is All This Water Coming From?; title: Self-Pity Is Better Than No Pity At All; title: It Was Not of the Moon We Dreamt; title: Umbrian Anecdotes; title: O, the Sadness Immaculate; title: Not All Skeletons Are Museum Quality; title: A Moral Victory Is Still A Defeat; title: Poem Written on the First Anniversary of My Father's Death; title: After the Obsequies, Etc.; title: Eulogy (Currently in Revision); title: Meditation on a Poem Currently in Revision; title: Sonnet on Consequence; title: May 25; title: Part II.; title: Excerpts from the Unabridged History of Rainfall; title: Birds are How the Earth Makes Sense of Heaven; title: Elegy for the Living; title: The Grove; title: The Ranges of Birds; title: Beauty is a Real Thing, I've Seen It; title: What This Poem Means; title: Alarums. Flourishes. Exeunt.; title: From a Window; title: Elegy; title: Glose; title: The Pallbearer; title: Jazz Funeral; title: Cloud Chanty; title: Part III.; title: Epigraph; title: The Rooster King; title: The Coast Road